Tivoization
id:
tivoization-181-11013122
title:
Tivoization
text:
Tivoization is the practice of designing hardware that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license like the GNU General Public License, but uses hardware restrictions or digital rights management (DRM) to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware. Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) coined the term in reference to TiVo's use of GNU GPL licensed software on the TiVo brand digital video recorders (DVR), which actively
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Practice of a hardware developer making only a specific version of free software runnable
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
date created:
2006-03-30T19:01:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T12:01:02Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1207845","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1207845"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
15